C21 Chapter 21: Doubt

At ten o'clock sharp, a group of people from Long Teng arrived at the Ying Xin Technology Company.

Lu Yao, who was sitting in the corner, slightly raised her head and saw Shao Yunchen, who came in first. He was wearing a dark gray suit and looked very stylish. His thin lips were tightly shut, and when matched with his indifferent expression, he gave people a feeling that he was unapproachable.

After shaking hands with Boss Ji, Shao Yunchen walked around the meeting room habitually. Unconsciously, he caught a glimpse of Lu Yao in the corner, who was looking down at her notebook on the table. The side of her face looked a little fat.

Shao Yunchen's gaze only stayed on her for a second before he pulled back the chair and sat down.

As the leader of the investment giant companies, Shao Yunchen's few words were enough to let people understand his strong aura. Even the experienced Boss Ji was a little nervous when talking to him.

Not long after, the secretary entered, pushing a cart with coffee and pastries.

Seeing that her secretary was busy, Lu Yao got up and helped to deliver the coffee to the few people beside Long Teng.

When she brought the coffee to Shao Yunchen, she subconsciously picked out a cup of warm, unsweetened coffee.

Although Shao Yunchen only came home once a week, he occasionally needed to take care of his work. Lu Yao noticed that he liked coffee, couldn't get too hot, and didn't like adding sugar, so she secretly wrote it down.

Today's actions were completely habitual.

Shao Yunchen was still talking to Boss Ji, but when Lu Yao placed the cup of coffee in front of him and saw that there was no saccharine on the saucer, even the coffee was warm, she slightly tightened her folded hands without slowing down her speed of speech.

The meeting was not long, and ended in almost forty minutes.

To be able to cooperate with Long Teng, Boss Ji's happy expression was written all over his face. After the meeting ended, he personally brought Shao Yunchen downstairs to the dining hall to eat while the others followed behind.

The restaurant downstairs where Lu Yao worked didn't consume much either. It cost at least several tens of thousands of RMB for the lunch. As there were a lot of customers, the restaurant had become a buffet.

"Manager Lu, you're eating!"

Lu Yao was picking out the food she wanted to eat when she noticed a colleague coming over to greet her. She answered, "I happen to be a bit hungry."

After chatting for a while, the colleague suddenly changed the topic, and said in a gossipy tone: "Did you see Boss Shao from Long Teng? He's so young, he doesn't even look to be in his thirties, I didn't think he would be so rich."

"This Boss Shao doesn't look like a man who's easy to get along with. However, he's quite handsome and can match up to some celebrities. You said he wasn't married. There are probably several mistresses with money like him. "

While chatting, his colleague looked towards the Boss Ji, his eyes filled with desire. Seeing that, Lu Yao also looked over.

The man untied his tie and casually sat there talking to others, but it was as if all the attention had been focused on him.

Lu Yao seemed to have understood something and suddenly laughed.

Look, that man is so outstanding, who knows how many girls miss him, some of them even want to be an anonymous lover, but she is so silly to want to move him, to expect the two of them to grow old together.

How ridiculous!

"That kind of man is smart and restrained. You won't get any benefit from him." Lu Yao lowered her head and continued cooking.

That colleague asked curiously, "How did you know?"

Lu Yao thought, she shared a bed with Shao Yunchen for three years, how could she not know what kind of person he was?

"Manager Lu, why are you not wearing a ring?" This colleague had sharp eyes. He noticed that Lu Yao's ring finger was empty and there was only a faint ring mark on it. "Could it be that you and your husband got divorced?"

Lu Yao acknowledged.

When they were getting married, she also considered inviting her colleagues to have a wedding wine, but Shao Yunchen told her not to pull him in, as if the less people knew about their marriage the better, so she didn't tell the company who her husband was.

"Men these days like beautiful and perfect women." He comforted Lu Yao, "Manager Lu, you are so young and have no children. Don't worry, it's easy to find a second spring."

Lu Yao couldn't help but glance at her stomach.

It was true that she had divorced, but she left with the piece of meat in her belly.

Just then, someone walked past Lu Yao with a tray. The food on the plate seemed to be seafood, and a faint fishy smell wafted into Lu Yao's nose, causing her stomach to churn.

Lu Yao pushed her colleague away, covering her mouth as she hurriedly ran towards the bathroom.

That colleague was baffled by Lu Yao's nudging.

Shao Yunchen accidentally saw Lu Yao run towards the bathroom with her hands covering her mouth. Her face was pale and when she ran, her dress was tightly pressed against her body and her belly seemed a little round. His gaze gradually darkened.